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BAGHDAD, Oct 20 (AFP) - Four US soldiers have been killed in two attacks in
Iraq and a fifth died from a "non-hostile gunshot wound," the US military
said Thursday.
Three US soldiers were killed and one injured late Wednesday when their
patrol hit a a roadside bomb in the town of Balad, north of Baghdad, it said
in a statement.
Further north near Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein, a fourth soldier died when his vehicle caught fire Wednesday. Two
wounded were evacuated to a hospital.
In a base near the northern city of Mosul, a fifth "died from a non-hostile
gunshot wound" on Tuesday, the military said.
The latest deaths brought to 1,981 the number of US military personnel
killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003, according to an AFP
tally based on Pentagon figures.
Since Saturday, the day of a largely peaceful vote on Iraq's new
constitution, 12 US military personnel have been killed in fighting with
insurgents.
Iraq and a fifth died from a "non-hostile gunshot wound," the US military
said Thursday.
Three US soldiers were killed and one injured late Wednesday when their
patrol hit a a roadside bomb in the town of Balad, north of Baghdad, it said
in a statement.
Further north near Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein, a fourth soldier died when his vehicle caught fire Wednesday. Two
wounded were evacuated to a hospital.
In a base near the northern city of Mosul, a fifth "died from a non-hostile
gunshot wound" on Tuesday, the military said.
The latest deaths brought to 1,981 the number of US military personnel
killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003, according to an AFP
tally based on Pentagon figures.
Since Saturday, the day of a largely peaceful vote on Iraq's new
constitution, 12 US military personnel have been killed in fighting with
insurgents.